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Comparative analysis: Citizen participation in Western Balkans

Under the work of the project “CSOs Networking for Better Local Democracy in the Balkans", funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and implemented by the Balkan Civil Society Development Network (BCSDN), three comparative studies were done that examine the level of citizen participation in decision-making locally within the WB6. Each of them takes an extensive analysis...

Metamorphosis Foundation: Openness not priority for municipalities in North Macedonia

Only 10 municipalities in North Macedonia have published civil budgets, while the local self-government units are meeting only a modest 27% of the indicators in the sub-domain of financial transparency. The municipalities aren't publishing data about salaries of officials and the salaries of the members of their councils. This is just a small part of the results of the research...

If they want to prevent corruption, state institutions must publish data in open and easily accessible format

There is no direct correlation between the openness of the institutions and their budgets. There is no correlation between the openness of the executive bodies and the openness of the ministries they are part of... This is what the results of the all-encompassing empirical research present, on the basis of the Index of Openness as part of USAID's Civic...

The POINT Conference starts with a discussion about the elections in the Balkans during the pandemic

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the leading regional annual conference about political responsibility and new technologies - POINT is returning with a new, online format: POINT Talks. Today, the 5th of February 2021,, starting at 15h, the first of series of events will take place i.e. the online panel discussion on the subject of "Elections during the pandemic: Case...

Anti-corruption reforms: The sole progress was acchieved by SCPC and civil society organizations

The work of the new composition of the Anti-Corruption Commission, the commitment of several civil society organizations and the prospects of the new Law on Public Prosecution are the only lights in the tunnel of the reform achievements of North Macedonia in the field of anti-corruption and the fight against organized crime in 2019 and early 2020. This is the...

Working group holds first meeting for the preparation of the Transparency Strategy

The Metamorphosis Foundation, for Internet and Society, Macedonia and the Minister without Portfolio for Communications, Transparency and Accountability in the Government, Robert Popovski, signed a Memorandum of Cooperation that will provide support for the creation and implementation of the Strategy for Transparency of the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia. Today. the first meeting was held of the working...

Final conference of the “ACTION SEE Visegrad” Project

Tomorrow, the Metamorphosis Foundation at the "Holiday Inn" hotel,  will be holding the final conference within the framework of the project "ACTION SEE Visegrad" - Accountability, Technology and Institutional Openness Network in South-East Europe called “Road to Good Governance”. During the conference, a plan for implementing principles of good governance in the countries in the Western Balkans will be promoted –...

Institutions closed and the public cut off from decision-making

There are many tools and mechanisms that citizens and civil society organizations can use to participate and where they can contribute to good governance, however, people do not use them because they do not know that they exist, and they are not given enough time to use them to their full advantage. This was the conclusion after a discussion...